Level: 27
Blinds: 30,000/60,000
Ante: 10,000
Level: 27
Blinds: 30,000/60,000
Ante: 10,000
We've reached a 15-minute break.
Player | Chips | Progress |
---|---|---|
Kemal Ferri |
1,750,000
-50,000
|
-50,000 |
Leonardo Zepeda
|
1,450,000
70,000
|
70,000 |
Raul Pino
|
1,225,000
-5,000
|
-5,000 |
Samar Hodali
|
1,000,000 | |
Pablo Gonzales
|
820,000
-80,000
|
-80,000 |
Michel Barham
|
590,000
140,000
|
140,000 |
After a flurry of action last level, things have slowed considerably now. None of the six remaining players has a commanding chip lead, and all seem nervous to commit many pre-flop. We've seen a few three-bets in the last thirty minutes but all have gone uncalled.
Even though Kemal Ferri has the chip lead, he can't lose too many pots. His 1.8-million chip stack represents only 36 big blinds at this point. 1.55 million after losing a small pot to Raul Pino. Pino opened to 125,000 pre-flop, with Ferri tagging along from the big blind. Both players checked a king-high flop, . Ferri also checked the turn but didn't fold to Pino's bet of 125,000. He called to the river which both players checked. Pino's , a pair of tens, was good enough to claim the pot.
Poker players coined the phrase "suck, re-suck" for the type of hand that just took place at the final table. Samar Hodali was all in on the flop against Pablo Gonzales with an over-pair of 10s against Gonzales' top pair of eights. Gonzales turned two pair to take the lead but Hodali spiked her two-outer set on the river to double up and stay alive. She now has about a million in chips, wihle Gonzales has just slightly less.
Level: 26
Blinds: 25,000/50,000
Ante: 5,000
Player | Chips | Progress |
---|---|---|
Kemal Ferri |
1,800,000
-50,000
|
-50,000 |
Pablo Gonzales
|
1,405,000
5,000
|
5,000 |
Leonardo Zepeda
|
1,380,000
430,000
|
430,000 |
Raul Pino
|
1,230,000
764,000
|
764,000 |
Samar Hodali
|
600,000
-275,000
|
-275,000 |
Michel Barham
|
450,000
-303,000
|
-303,000 |
Many players would be filled to finish in 7th-place in today's tournament. For Daniel Ospina it has to be a disappointment. Ospina led this tournament since Day 1 but a series of unlucky hands crippled him early at this final table. With about 10 big blinds remaining, Ospina open-shoved from the button with . Kemal Ferri held in the big blind and went for the kill. Each player caught a piece of the flop, . Ferri had top set; Ospina had an up-and-down straight draw. Running nines, and , gave Ferri a full house and sent Ospina to the rail in a disappointing 7th-place. He shook everyone's hand before going to collect his winnings and -- perhaps -- to think about what might have been.
Michael Barham's stack is quickly evaporating. Two hands cost him half his stack. First, sitting in the big blind, he called a raise to 120,000 made by Samar Hodali. Barham checked an all-small flop of , prompting Hodali to move all in. Barham open-folded , prompting Hodali to show .
The next hand Barham opened to 140,000 on the button and was called by Kemal Ferri in the big blind. Ferri check-called another 140,000 on a king-high flop, . Both players checked the turn. At the river, Barham sighed, shook his head and folded in the face of a 300,000-chip bet from Ferri.